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>The mortality rate for non-complication (elective) ceasarian is actually lower.

Lower than popping the kid out the pre-existing hole that is there specifically for that purpose under similiar conditions (i.e. in a hospital)?

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Except that, without C-sections, the natural path tend to be fatal for either mother or child in a non trivial percentage of cases, even in an hospital.

Let’s not call the anatomy of females “holes.”

The fact that it is a hole is relevant to this discussion. The physics and safety of a large object passing through a relatively small hole are the entire thing in question.

The organs and tissues surrounding the "hole" (not to mention their psychological significance to their owner) are of considerable relevance to the evaluation of vaginal delivery. To reduce the entire process to passing an object through a hole is, well, reductive.

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